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PM Boris Johnson says UK is 'past the peak' of the coronavirus outbreak

Ryan Browne
CNBC
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:25 UTC
Boris Johnson
© Alberto Pezzali - WPA Pool | Getty ImagesUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks and takes questions during a press conference in Downing Street regarding the coronavirus outbreak, on March 9, 2020. in London, England.
Britain has officially passed the peak of its coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday.

"I can confirm today that for the first time we are past the peak of this disease," Johnson said in his first appearance at the government's daily briefing since returning to work after falling ill with Covid-19.

"We're past the peak and we're on the downward slope."

Johnson did not however lay out a road map for the U.K. to eventually lift its restrictions on public life, something which countries elsewhere in Europe have been gradually doing.
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Health

Doctors call for calm as media hypes tenuous Covid-19 connection to inflammatory syndrome in children


RT
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:36 UTC
child parents masks social distance
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The Western media has been flooded with stories about a "mysterious disease" affecting children in the UK and the US that is supposedly linked to Covid-19. RT has asked a number of pediatricians if there is cause for concern.

On Monday, the UK's Paediatric Intensive Care Society (PICS) sent a memo to British doctors warning them about a rise in cases of a "multi-system inflammatory state requiring intensive care" that had been exhibited in "children of all ages" in several regions across the UK, including London. It further noted that the symptoms of the condition were "consistent with severe Covid-19," and were observed particularly in those youngsters who had previously tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Comment: Kawaski Disease has been observed for decades. However, even as the coronvirus' infection mechanism mimics that of the bacteria-caused malaria, the potential for a similar situation for Kawasaki should be kept in mind.

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SOTT Focus: The British Corona Middle Man And The Bill Gates Connection

Jon Rappoport
Jon Rappoport's Blog
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:07 UTC
neil ferguson covid-19
Neil Ferguson, the man in the middle of this hoax?
He's Neil Ferguson: the ghost in the machine.

Why do governments salute when he predicts a pandemic and tells them to lock down their countries?

Does anyone care about his past?

Why does he still have a prestigious job?

Who is he connected to?

Let me briefly clear away a bit of refuse and garbage. You can read articles about how computer predictions aren't really meant to be precise, about how the COVID model to which the US and UK and other nations are surrendering has been walked back, or hasn't been walked back. The essence of these articles is nonsense. Why? Because governments are obeying a model. They're obeying the highest number-projections of deaths...and that is the devastating point.

Neil Ferguson, through his institute at London's Imperial College, can call the shots on a major percentage of the global population.

He's Mr. Genius, when it comes to projecting computer models of epidemics.

Fellow experts puff up his reputation.

According to the Business Insider (4/25):
"Ferguson's team warned Boris Johnson that the quest for 'herd immunity' [letting people live their lives out in the open in the UK] could cost 510,000 lives, prompting an abrupt U-turn [massive national lockdown in the UK]...His simulations have been influential in other countries as well, cited by authorities in the US, Germany, and France."
Not only cited, not only influential, but swallowed whole.
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Best of the Web: The Great Conundrum and how it plays out

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:13 UTC
car in lot
© Daily Beast"...they paved paradise and put up a parking lot..."
"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone," Joni trilled half a century ago. Another song, by CSN, went, "it's been a long time coming, it's gonna be a long time gone". Boomers. Back in the day - before they invented the hedge fund, glyphosate, and political correctness ­- they had a way with the deep vision thing. And now, here we are! Just like they saw it.

Open up is code, of course, for return to normal. You're kidding, right? Where I live, the future happened ten years ago. Main Street is nothing but consignment shops, that is, old stuff people got rid of, mostly for good reasons. The one thing you can't get there is food, unless there's a bowl of mints next to the cash register. Oh, and the Kmart in town shuttered exactly a year ago, so the supply of new-stuff-waiting-to-be-old-stuff has been cut off, too. Welcome to America, the next chapter.

The public is understandably frantic to bust out of their quarantine bunkers. Seven weeks of jigsaw puzzles bears an interesting resemblance to the old Chinese water torture. (Can you even say that? There, I said it for you.) What will they find as they emerge blinking from the doleful demi-life of the sequester? It's liable to be a society in which just about everything no longer works the way it was set up to work.
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Trump claims China 'will do anything they can' to keep him from being reelected

Rebecca Klar
The Hill
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:00 UTC
Trump open up
© Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump
President Trump said Wednesday that he thinks China is trying to keep him from getting reelected this year. "China will do anything they can to have me lose this race," Trump said in an interview with Reuters.

He told the newswire that Beijing wants former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, to win in November to ease pressure that Trump has placed on China over trade and other issues.

"They're constantly using public relations to try to make it like they're innocent parties," Trump said of Chinese officials.

Comment: Not everything is 'Made in China!'

China hits back, claims 'no interest' in the US vote
China has rejected any allegations it planned to meddle in the US election in November.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said during a daily briefing that "the US presidential election is an internal affair, we have no interest in interfering in it," adding "we hope the people of the US will not drag China into its election politics."

Geng stated that China is not an "accomplice" of the virus, but a victim, like the rest of the world, and that "certain politicians" have attempted to shift the blame from their own poor handling of the outbreak to blaming China. "The US should know this: the enemy is the virus, not China," he added.


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Health

GCHQ has been granted access to NHS data, privacy concerns aside

Dan Raywood
Infosecurity Magazine
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
GCHQ building
© GCHQGovernment Communications Headquarters
The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has permitted GCHQ to access NHS data.

According to HSJ, GCHQ now has the power to make the NHS disclose any information which relates to "the security" of the health service's networks and information systems. This move is intended to better protect the NHS from cyber-attack.

A statement claimed that Hancock has permitted GCHQ access to
"any information relating to the security of any network and information system held by or on behalf of the NHS or a public health body during the period ending on December 31 2020."
The statement also noted that "any activities carried out by GCHQ for the purpose of supporting and maintaining the security of any network and information system" which is held by, or on behalf of, the NHS or a public health body, and supports, directly or indirectly, the provision of NHS services or public health services intended to address coronavirus, are permitted.

Comment: Whether Hancock gave permission or not, GCHQ would have NHS data access.

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Arrow Up

US push for low-yield nukes increases likelihood of atomic war and full force Russian retaliation

Nebojsa Malic
RT
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 01:29 UTC
Soviet missile
© ReutersSoviet-era SS-4 is a medium-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile banned by the INF treaty.
The US State Department's case for tactical nuclear weapons is a case study in psychological projection not seen since the darkest days of the Cold War and its ever-present threat of world-ending atomic holocaust.

Back in February, the Pentagon announced the US Navy has fielded the first batch of W76-2 low-yield submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) warheads. A paper by the State Department's Bureau of Arms Control, published last week, aimed to explain the reasoning behind this move and "debunk" the critics. The 10-page document was endorsed by the acting Under Secretary for arms control Christopher Ford, who hailed the missiles as "reducing net nuclear risks."

On Wednesday, however, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the move
"a deliberate blurring of the lines between non-strategic and strategic nuclear weapons" that "inevitably leads to a lowering of the nuclear threshold and an increase in the threat of nuclear conflict.

"Everyone who wants to do this should understand that according to the Russian military doctrine, such actions will be considered the basis for the reciprocal use of nuclear weapons by Russia."
At the root of this discrepancy is a fundamental misunderstanding. Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon are basing their arguments not on the actual Russian doctrine or behavior, but on their belief as to what those might be.
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Better Earth

ILO: Close to half of the global workforce may lose livelihoods due to job losses

WAM
Emirates24/7
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00 UTC
International labor organization
© WAM
The continued sharp decline in working hours globally due to the new coronavirus, COVID-19, outbreak means that 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy - that is nearly half of the global workforce - stand in immediate danger of having their livelihoods destroyed, warns the International Labour Organisation, ILO.

According to a report titled 'ILO Monitor third edition: COVID-19 and the world of work,' the drop in working hours in the current (second) quarter of 2020 is expected to be significantly worse than previously estimated.

Compared to pre-crisis levels (last quarter of 2019), a 10.5 percent deterioration is now expected, equivalent to 305 million full-time jobs (assuming a 48-hour working week), revealed a press release issued by the ILO based on the report.

The previous estimate was for a 6.7 per cent drop, equivalent to 195 million full-time workers. This is due to the prolongation and extension of lockdown measures.

Regionally, the situation has worsened for all major regional groups. Estimates suggest a 12.4 percent loss of working hours in second quarter for the Americas (compared to pre-crisis levels) and 11.8 percent for Europe and Central Asia. The estimates for the rest of the regional groups follow closely and are all above 9.5 percent.

Comment: Buckle up. Financially this is going to be a rough and rocky ride.

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Dollars

'That's a Ponzi scheme': Keiser Report explores US deflationary spiral due to nonstop 'printing of debt'


RT
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:25 UTC
Money pit
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Bond investors have started to debate whether the United States is heading into a deflationary spiral, even after trillions of dollars of stimulus has been injected into the coronavirus-hit global economy.

The Keiser Report has been warning of such risks for a long time, pointing out that "all money is debt and the money that's printed increases the debt."

In 2020, something like $8 trillion of new debt money has been printed and "now we're getting a more accelerated debt deflation, which is caused by the printing of debt," Max Keiser says.

According to him, "When you have debt money and you flood the economy with that debt money, you still have to pay interest on that debt money, which requires you to create more debt money."

That's why there's a dollar shortage, Max explains, adding: "That's a Ponzi scheme."


Comment: 'All is well' as long as there is no shortage of paper and ink...

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The PLA expels US warship from Xisha Islands

Liu Xuanzun, Guo Yuardan
Global Times
Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:59 UTC
Chinese missile destroyer
© XinhuaChinese missile destroyer
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on Tuesday expelled a US warship that trespassed into Chinese territorial waters off the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea as the US' move could have easily caused an accident, a Chinese military spokesperson said on Tuesday, who also urged the US side to focus on COVID-19 prevention and control at home rather than destabilizing regional security and peace.

The US Navy's recent operations near China show its own fear of losing presence and influence in the Asia-Pacific region amid multiple COVID-19 outbreaks on its warships, analysts noted.

The PLA Southern Theater Command organized naval and aerial forces to follow the US guided missile destroyer USS Barry when it trespassed into China's territorial waters off the Xisha Islands on Tuesday, said Senior Colonel Li Huamin, a spokesperson of the PLA Southern Theater Command, on Tuesday.

They followed and monitored its course, identified the ship, warned and expelled it, Li said.
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